Vol. 35, pp. 77-80 March 20, 1922 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



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GENERAL NOTES. 



NOTE ON A RARE PAROQUET FROM VENEZUELA, i 

 Mr. Ridgway described GrammopsiUaca lineola maculata (Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., 27, 1915, 106) from four trade skins supposed to have come 

 from the interior of Venezuela. This locality he later changed to eastern 

 Peru, with a question mark, as Salvadori (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 20, 1891, 

 240) had cast doubt upon Venezuela as the locality of Souanc^'s Myiop- 

 sitta tigrina. 



In a small collection of Venezuelan birds collected by the well-known 

 collector S. Briceno and presented to the U. S. National Museum by Mr. 

 B. H. Swales, there is a fine specimen of this form, marked as a male, but 

 probably a female, and taken at San Jacinto, Merida Region. This speci- 

 men agrees very well with the type of maculata, except it is greener on the 

 head and back and the black on the central tail-feathers is more restricted ; 

 the lower parts are not so yellowish. In fact it is more like two of the 

 other specimens in the typical series of maculata and this difference is 

 probably sexual; it is dated May 24, and is probably adult. It measures: 

 wing, 101; tail, 57; culmen, 11 mm. Briceno notes on the label that it is 

 a wanderer to the Merida Region, but in any event this would seem to 

 validate Souanc6's record and as he founded his Myiopsitta tigrina (Rev. 

 et Mag. Zool., 1856, 144), upon the Venezuelan bird his name will have to 

 come into use for this form, which should be known in the future as 

 Bolborhynchus lineolus tigrinus (Souanc6). 



— J . H. Riley. 



AN ADDITIONAL NOTE ON THE NAME OF THE INCA TERN. 

 In these Proceedings (34, 1911, 38), I called attention to the fact that 

 Inca Jardine can not be used as a generic name for the Inca Tern in place 

 of Ncenia Boie, preoccupied. I then thought that Larosterna Blyth 

 (Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc, 1852, 293) was the next available name, but this 

 proves not to be the case as Desmurs (Gay's Hist. Chile, Zool. I, 1847, 

 486) used Noddi, crediting the name to Cuvier, who did not use it in a 

 generic sense. As the only species placed under Noddi by Desmurs was 

 Sterna inca Lesson, it becomes the type by monotypy and the Inca Tern 

 will have to be called Noddi inca (Lesson). Noddi Oken (Isis, 1817, 

 1183) is not available from this date nor was it used in a generic sense by 

 Gray (List of the Genera of Birds, 1840, 79) as given by Waterhouse 

 (Index Gen. Avium, 1889, 146). — /. H. Riley. 



1 Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



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